----Lolita-Vladimir Nabokov
A Farewell to Arms- Hernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls- Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea- Hemingway
Of Mice and Men- John Steinbeck
Where is the rest of me ? - Ronald Reagan

The Fountainhead (way better than Atlas Shrugged, IMO)
The Great Gatsby
Pride and Prejudice
The Poisonwood Bible
Angela's Ashes

(I'm assuming we are disregarding duration since its penning in becoming a classic.)

[...] the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.-Darwin

I hope you're on the recieving end of an improbability equation wherein something happens to you that's as unlikely as Rob Schneider winning a best actor Oscar on the same day Michael Jackson single handedly captures Osama Bin Laden. ~ Rainswept

O.K. Everything else is just stuff you do while you are waiting to have sex. Sin. WoE. ~ Warlord of Elephants

You know, I thought that too the 1st time I read both, but rereading Atlas and seeing just how well the entire thing fits together from start to finish, I like Atlas a lot better.

I thought that Rearden was a less likable character than Roark. I also felt that Fountainhead was substantially more realistic; the Doomsday feel of Atlas felt too rushed for a proper collapse of society.

Dude, you'd sacrifice Cry, the Beloved Country and A Lesson Before Dying because some people can't think for themselves? Pfft. Some of us read Poisonwood because it's a bloody good book and has character development that would put many contemporary authors to shame.

[...] the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.-Darwin